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"Kubernetes is a cluster operating system" makes sense. Some of the complexity of Kubernetes also feels like the early days of Linux where you had to basically
by zimbatm 5y ago
"Kubernetes is a cluster operating system" makes sense. Some of the complexity of Kubernetes also feels like the early days of Linux where you had to basically build your own Linux distribution. Even with managed solutions like EKS, you still need to install and learn about cert-manager, how to pass the IAM credentials around, monitoring kinda sucks so you want to replace it, ...
- zozbot234 5y agoNote that there are other cluster operating systems which make different tradeoffs than Kubernetes. Some of these are true Single System Image (SSI), but even something as comparatively simple as Plan9 is closer to the SSI end of the scale than the less hands-on, more 'declarative'-focused k8s.